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Making Thin & Crispy Pizza AT HOME MY WAY


 Thin & Crispy Pizzeria Style Pizza 

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Thin & Crispy Pizza AT HOME MY WAY is perfect for pizza nights at home.  You can have restaurant quality pizza in the time it takes to get pizza delivery.  Crispy pizza at home with some crunch?  Oh yes - that crunch is possible right in your very own kitchen!  


Uses regular pizza pan, regular oven, no special equipment needed!


Here's how I make Thin & Crispy Pizza AT HOME MY WAY!


FIRST THINGS - FIRST:

  • Place your oven rack on the lowest level in the oven.
  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees while mixing up the crust.

Quick Pizza Crust Recipe

Crust Recipe:
  • 1/2 cup warm/hot water (like hot bath water - "hot but no hurt")
  • 1 teaspoon active yeast
  • 1 teaspoon sugar (optional)
  • 1 1/2 cup All Purpose flour (unbleached is best)
  • 1 teaspoon table salt
  • 2 teaspoons oil (I used olive oil.) (plus a little more for your hands).
  • Cooking spray or oil to prevent the pizza from sticking to your pan.

Also needed to make pizza:
  • Pizza Sauce 
  • Grated cheese of your choice
  • toppings

Crust Instructions:

  1. MEASURE the "warm/hottish" water (hot but no hurt - should feel like hot bath water) in a measuring cup.  Add the yeast and sugar to the water and stir gently.  Add the 2 teaspoons of oil and stir.  Let it rest while getting out your mixing bowl / other ingredients.  Stir one more time and pour that liquid mixture into your mixing bowl.
  2. SPRINKLE 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour over the liquids in the bowl.
  3. ADD 1 teaspoon table salt over the flour in the bowl.
  4. STIR all ingredients well to fully combine.  I use a wooden spoon.
  5. KNEAD for about one minute.  Oil your hands if its sticky.  No lengthy kneading process is needed.
  6. LET IT REST for about 10 minutes so that the flour fully absorbs the liquid.
  7. ROLL dough out on lightly floured surface (or use a silicone rolling mat) as thin as you can get it so that it equals the size of your pizza pan / cookie sheet.  If it springs back, let it rest a few minutes and then try rolling again.
  8. PLACE DOUGH in your sprayed/oiled pizza pan (or cookie sheet works too) pressing it to the edges of your pan if you can.  You want a thin crust here.
Instructions for getting it CRISPY / baking instructions:
  1. Prick the dough with a fork.
  2. Prebake the crust:  Place the pan in oven and bake for about 10 minutes.  It needs to be baked long enough for the dough to be solid so that you can lift it off the pan and still holds its shape.
  3. Remove the pan w/ prebaked crust from oven.
  4. Sometimes I brush the edge of the crust with melted butter and sprinkle with garlic powder if I'm feeling EXTRA.
  5. Carefully (the crust is hot & still on the pan here) spread sauce, top with cheese, and add toppings.  Now you are ready to bake the pizza.
  6. Using a potholder, hold your pan to the edge of the rack in the oven and with a spatula, slide the pizza off the pan and directly onto the lowest oven rack.
  7. Bake - WATCH IT for browning for about 15 minutes or until the crust appears to brown and  cheese melts/start browning in a few spots.
  8. Remove pizza carefully from the oven by sliding it from the rack back onto the pizza pan using a spatula to slide/lift it OR use a pizza peel to remove from the oven.  I use a pizza peel to remove from the oven and place the pizza on one or two cutting boards for cutting into slices.
  9. Take a bite once it's not so hot and then JUST LISTEN for the crunch!  Amazing, isn't it?  



Why we love it:

Super Fast:  

  • Mixing up the homemade crust only takes a few minutes.  No rise time is needed. By the time your oven is preheated, you will be ready for baking the crust. 

Frugal / Family Favorite:  

  • Uses basic pantry ingredients + a little cheese/toppings for a crunchy, pizzeria style pizza at home.  Restaurants are expensive these days so eating at home avoids restaurant prices, wait staff tips, and even gas money!

Variety / options are up to you:  

  • Make several small rounds of pizza crusts and prebake and then (after cooled a little bit if kids are helping) let kids and family members create their own pizzas, then finish off in the oven.  
  • Or make one large pizza and use up some leftovers.  Think rotisserie chicken pieces mixed with BBQ Sauce & topped w/cheese; How about ranch dressing as the sauce topped w/ chicken/bacon & cheese; Taco Pizza using leftover taco meat / cheddar cheese and topped w/ lettuce, tomatoes after it comes out of the oven.  Options are endless! 

Freezer Options:  Prebake some pizza rounds, cool and freeze in gallon baggies for even quicker pizzas on days when mixing up a crust just takes more energy than you can find.


Pizza Hut - eat your heart out!

Gina
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